7 Best biography books like What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking by Rupert Callender

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What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

By: Rupert Callender

3.56

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Death is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny. When he became an undertaker, …

If you liked the biography plot in What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking by Rupert Callender , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens

1. Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

By: Nell Stevens

3.40

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

On a frozen island in the Falklands, with only penguins for company, a young would-be writer strugg… read more

Similar categories in Nell Stevens's Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Loneliness is a city you don't know."

-Nell Stevens, Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

"Solitude is the contented twin of loneliness. Variety is a kind of company."

-Nell Stevens, Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

"I want to know how good at life I can be in a place where there are no distractions."

-Nell Stevens, Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

"Surrounded by people it is very easy to feel alone. Surrounded by penguins, less so."

-Nell Stevens, Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

Cover of Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life by Allison Moon

2. Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life

By: Allison Moon

3.95

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

Furry-style fox hunts, breaking into waterparks, and masturbating in trees. It's all just part of t… read more

Similar categories in Allison Moon's Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. Coldheart Canyon

By: Clive Barker

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Film's most popular action hero needs a place to heal after his surgery has gone terribly wrong. Hi… read more

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Cover of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

4. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

By: Mary Roach

4.36

Format: 352 pages,

"Equal parts Groucho Marx & Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening & entertaining."--Sunday Denver Po… read more

Similar categories in Mary Roach's Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • death
Cover of Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving by Julia Samuel

5. Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

By: Julia Samuel

4.00

Format: 199 pages,

Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly … read more

Similar categories in Julia Samuel's Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • death

6. The Glass Pearls

By: Emeric Pressburger

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more

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Cover of With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Kathryn Mannix

7. With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

By: Kathryn Mannix

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Through stories from her own practice, a palliative care doctor takes the reader on a journey throu… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Mannix's With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • death
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8. The Fry Chronicles

By: Stephen Fry

3.84

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fa… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Mow the fuckers down."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books"

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

"Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it."

-Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

Cover of How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes by Cody Cassidy

9. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

By: Cody Cassidy

4.06

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more

Similar categories in Cody Cassidy's How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
Cover of Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes

10. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.08

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more

Similar categories in Miriam Margolyes's Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire

11. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Darkshire's Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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12. How to Live When You Could Be Dead

By: Deborah James

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER'Deborah James has captured the heart of the nation' - The Duke and… read more

Similar categories in Deborah James's How to Live When You Could Be Dead book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain by Sara Manning Peskin

13. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

By: Sara Manning Peskin

4.21

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more

Similar categories in Sara Manning Peskin's A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

14. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

By: Laurah Norton

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more

Similar categories in Laurah Norton's Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • death
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15. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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16. Love and Other Human Errors

By: Bethany Clift

4.22

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The convention of a book synopsis is fundamentally ridiculous. How can I adequately convey in 150 w… read more

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17. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

Cover of The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #2) by Hisashi Kashiwai

18. The Restaurant of Lost Recipes (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #2)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

3.65

Format: None pages, ebook

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Kamogawa Food … read more

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19. What About Men?

By: Caitlin Moran

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"

-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?

Cover of Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas

20. Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

By: Caroline Lucas

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Who are the English? Today, the dominant story told about our national history solely serves the i… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Many resented how some expressions of Englishness were allowed, while others were not. It was acceptable to love the English countryside, English humour, English music and English Literature, and to …"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"With the 1980s came a new harshness in British politics, which included prioritising profit over public service. The Conservatives - the very party who might have been expected to support the traditi…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"The economist J.K. Galbraith wrote in The Affluent Society (1958) about 'private affluence and public squalor', demonstrating the pernicious effects on the economy and society of excessive wealth ine…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"Ultimately, the most powerful way to rebalance the interests of private owners and the common good is by shifting the focus towards taxes on wealth - that is, asking those who have accummulated subst…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

Cover of Maxwell's Demon by Steven  Hall

21. Maxwell's Demon

By: Steven Hall

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Fourteen years after the monumental publication of the international bestseller The Raw Shark Texts… read more

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Cover of Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life by Kate   Marshall

22. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

Similar categories in Kate Marshall's Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • death
Cover of Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature by Julia Bradbury

23. Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature

By: Julia Bradbury

4.02

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'It's hard not to be persuaded by Bradbury's enthusiasm and positivity' … read more

Similar categories in Julia Bradbury's Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
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24. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

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Cover of A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch

25. A History of Women in 101 Objects

By: Annabelle Hirsch

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate obje… read more

Similar categories in Annabelle Hirsch's A History of Women in 101 Objects book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
"Pans and other such objects are the very opposite of monuments. They don't commemorate revolutions or victories on the battlefield; don't allude to great contracts or those moments of upheaval that h…"

-Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects

Cover of Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism by George Monbiot

26. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

By: George Monbiot

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more

Similar categories in George Monbiot's Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
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27. Listen

By: Kathryn Mannix

4.36

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that ma… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Mannix's Listen book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
Cover of Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer by Evie King

28. Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

By: Evie King

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

‘I’ve a body out the back for you...' Imagine having that sentence said to you. And then imagine… read more

Similar categories in Evie King's Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • death
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29. What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

By: Rupert Callender

3.56

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

Death is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny. When he became an undertaker, … read more

Similar categories in Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking book and Rupert Callender's What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • death
Cover of Dead Now Of Course by Phyllida Law

30. Dead Now Of Course

By: Phyllida Law

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

‘My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There’s s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2) by A.M. Shine

31. Stay in the Light (The Watchers, #2)

By: A.M. Shine

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers, Mina has escaped to a cottage on the … read more

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23 Best nonfiction books like What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking by Rupert Callender

Transform Your Habits

Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

Nell Stevens

3.40

Transform Your Habits

Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life

Allison Moon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Mary Roach

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

Julia Samuel

4.00

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8 Best contemporary books like Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

A House with Good Bones

T. Kingfisher

3.69

Transform Your Habits

A Grandmother Begins the Story

Michelle Porter

3.84

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